by Javier Marías · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596194872
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«Alle Seelen» is the novel by Javier Marías, published by FISCHER Taschenbuch in paperback (280 pages, in German).
A Spanish professor spends two years in Oxford and portrays the ceremonial of All Souls College, a world of eccentric characters and outdated academic rituals. There he meets Clare Bayes, a married lecturer, and the two share a relationship marked by belonging to different worlds. A campus novel with irony and psychological insight.
German translation by Elke Wehr of «Todas las almas», original novel by Javier Marías published in 1989 and winner of the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona.
For readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy satire of the university environment and Marías's reflective, ironic tone.
Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement. In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally. He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).
